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UNITED STATES weaves PATENT orrice.

HENRY ALONZO HOUSE, OF ZBRIDGEPOlit/l"1 CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHREDDED i WHEAT COMPANY, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Application filed April 30, 1928. Serial No. 105,683.

This invention relates to the iiianlilaclilic of articles of food. such as cereal biscuits, and has to do more particularly with automatic apparatus for performing the several operations involved in producing the articles and packin them in selected quantities in sealed cartons ready for commercial distribution. The apparatus, while capable of use in the manufacture of numerous prod ucts. is especially adapted for the production of cereal filamentous biscuits oi the shredded wheat type, and a form of the apparatus suitable for that product will be described. although it is to be understood that this use is merely by way of example.

In the manufacture of cereal biscuits as now practiced, muncrous manual operations are required. For example, the biscuits formed from the cereal grain by appromiate devices are deposited upon trays which are conveyed to the baking ovens where the trays a re inserted in and removed from the ovens manually by the bakers. Then, in a further manualoperation, the trays of baked biscuits are caused to traverse a heated chamber wherein the biscuits are thoroughly dried. after which the trays are conveyed to packing tables where the biscuits are removed by packers who prepare cartons from blanks and fill the cartons. The filled cartons are then placed on a conveyor which carries them through devices for closing and sealing the cartons and. delivers them at. a convenient point in condition for shipment. Owing to the numerous manual operators, such as packers, bakers, etc, required to carry out this method of manufacture. the labor charge is an important element in the final cost and the necessary distribution of the different machines and ovens requires av great deal of floor space. Also. the rate of production is relatively low and can only be increased by duplication of mechanism and of the number of operators.

The object of the present invention is to provide a machine in which the several operations involved in the production of the biscuits and the formation. filling, and sealin; of the cartons may be carried on by mechanisn'i which operates auton'iatically and continuously. the "arious steps in the manufacture being carried out in proper sequence so that the product passes from one mechanism to another successively, eventually being led to a carton-filling mechanism where the biscuits are packed into cartons of the desired capacity and the cartons are closed and sealed ready for distribution.

The new machine includes a. baking oven of substantial size. a conveyor which moves into, through, and out of the baking oven and if desired a drying chamber, automatic mechanism for shredding the wheat, making the biscuits from the shreds and depositing, the uncooked biscuits upon the conveyor at a suitable point. and automatic mechanism cooperating with the conveyor at apoint outside the oven for removing the cooked biscuits from the conveyor and placing them in selected quantities in cartons. The conveyor employed is preferably arranged for continuous slow movement as a whole and periodic arresting of the movement oi? a portion or portions thereof which cooperate with the automatic mechanism for supplying the uncooked biscuits to the conveyor and removing the cooked ones therefrom.

The operations of making the biscuits and supplying them to the conveyor are preferably accomplished by a mechanism similar to those heretofore employed and this mechanism is arranged transverse to the travel of the conveyor so that a plurality of uncooked biscuits are delivered at regular intervals to the conveyor in a row extending across the latter. This mechanism receives the prepared wheat, shreds it, deposits the shreds upon a traveling linkbelt, cuts the strand of shreds to form the biscuits, then supports the biscuits from above while carrying them out over the conveyor and then drops a plurality of the hiscuits simultaneously to deposit them on the conveyor in a row extending crosswise thereof. ,This mechanism is actuated in synchronism with the movement of the conveyor so that the dropping of a row of biscuits takes place when the portion of the conveyor which receives the biscuits is, in effect, at rest.

The automatic mechanism for removing the cooked biscuits from the conveyor in cludes a reciprocating member which en gages a group of biscuits on the conveyor 

